Lost Continent: Part 2

the cult as the occultless nonsense you consider as well. Yeah, and so let's get in a little bit of column and calm be there with our next topic here, which is Lamia. Yes, the Lemur king's rule the lands. You know, if you if we hadn't researched it, and you just mentioned Lamaria and I had no background on it whatsoever, I don't think I would have thought of Lemurs. I would have it instantly. It sounds hellenistic somehow, it sounds

it sounds exotic and magical. And I'm thinking that about this this rich world, you know, like something out of a you know, an early twentieth century pulp story where there's you know, some sort of fantastic kingdom and and maybe lemurs, but I'm I'm not picturing them as the ruling class. Yeah, I just see them popping up around the landscape with crowns on their heads. So the sad thing here is that there are no lemur kings, no,

because you know, they don't lemurs don't need kings. They have it pretty well situated there on that a gascar where for the outside of the fassa, And of course humans they don't really have much in the way of natural adversaries, and they've they've they've had that, they've they've experienced sort of a uh an evolutionary shangri law there. But in eighteen seventy five, if you were trying to figure out where these lemurs came from, you might come

up with a wacky theory, wacky hypothesis. Rather. Yeah, indeed, you might look around at the some of the fossil evidence and you see some and also just sort of evolutionary evidence of similar forms in Africa, some maybe some similar forms in India. And that leads us to Philip Lute Lee slater Um. So slater is is again he's tackling the same issue what's up with the lemurs? What's up?

What's up with the I I? What's up with some of these other forms that are similar, such as the lorist of Asia UH and the and the and other forms found in say, Indonesia UH. And he ultimately observed that quote, while thirty different species of lemurs are found in Madagascar alone, all of Africa contains some eleven or twelve, while the Indian region has only three. And again he's drawing in some forms here there are not actually lemurs in the modern sense of the world, but he's saying

these are similar forms. What's going on here? So eighteen sixty four he pins an essay titled the Mammals of Madagascar UH. Madagascar, of course, is pointed out as the principal homeland of lemurs uh and UH. And he's saying that this is to spread out all over Asian Africa by a land bridge connecting uh these continents. So he's speculating that this this connection might even have extended to America. And we would have had this supposed land bridge slash continent,

and we would call this Maria. Yeah, and you also have an a son. Five scientists Hackle and Blandford jumping on this bandwagon, saying, yeah, there was a land bridge and it connected this and then therefore that is why they're all these lemurs or lemur like creatures populating the earth. Yeah, and of course land bridges have existed. Uh, that's that's that's not crazy theory in and in and of itself. But we're talking about a rather sizeable land bridge here.

We're talking about a lost continent that would have us, that would have bridged our modern continents together, Gone One, a land which was supposed to have reached three quarters of the way around the southern hemisphere with a gap in the Pacific. And scientifically, these continents have little to do with Atlantism, and even Gone want Aline is considered speculative, although it's still widely accepted. So some of this Lameria is connected to Atlantis as well in the idea of

the sort of genesis of how things came into being. Yeah, and we see this sort of trend again and again introduced the idea of a mysterious island, either as allegory or near hypothesis, and other individuals are going to grasp onto it. They're going to lift that idea up first, uh, first with the polls of of of science, than with pseudoscience, and eventually lofted high above us on the air of occultism, fiction, fantasy, dreaming,

and uh and at times insanity. Well, and but it's just like the the idea of the Greek ideal of symmetry had an interesting idea behind it, like there's got to be another land mass over there to balance this out, because there was an understanding of mass in this example, there's want of an understanding that land masses have changed over the years, right over deep time really, and there's an understanding that animals could spread via that way, and

but there's not really an understanding of a speciation. So it's kind of again, it's sort of like, Wow, they trying, they're trying to tell the story of how this came to be, and this is an explanation that makes sense to them at that time with the information that they had. Now, the problem with that is that you have the occult is hanging out right, and you have a little bit of information going on that's being extrapolated in a way that is not right. And what happens is that Lameria

theory is picked up by Hellonia p. Blavotsky. She is at that time in an influential occultist, and that's incorporated into her U gaudy cosmos. That's how it's explained from Natural History magazine. And it's also woven into Atlantis. As I had said, and according to her works and those of her disciples, the Lamians were the third root race, gigantic ape like men, hermaphroditic and ouvi paris, with some with something like four arms and a third eye in

the back of their heads. They interbred with animals, the offspring being the ancestors of the apes. Their discovery of sex, of which Madame Blovotsky took a poor view, caused their downfall. Who Yeah, and they were succeeded by the Atlanteans, the fourth root race and the ancestors of the modern mongoloids. According to her, and both the third and fourth races were full of cosmic consciousness. I love the idea that even back in the day, this is the idea of

cosmic consciousness is being explored. That is phenomenal. I was not up on this particular theory. Yeah, I know. When I read that the theory, I was like, yeah, it's not really a theory that I love the idea of forearmed to maphrodic apes with a third eye in the back of their head. It's wonderful whose downfall was sex,

which is just such a scientific line of reasoning. Right, Well, yeah, I mean, well, maybe that's why they had the third eye, right, and when they were so intosex, because they could do it as much as they wanted and they could always see behind them if someone else is walking into the room. All right, So um, moving on from Limeria. Now that we've again fully filled up the bathtub with occultist nonsense on that count, then uh, let's look to the very

real world of lost continents. Uh. And indeed, if you want to find a lost continent, you can't do any better than to look back in time to the loss super continent of Pangaea. I mean, in a sense still with us, but it no longer exists in this form.

Now it's generally forgotten that Pangaea is just the latest in a long line of about I don't know, something like it does in super continents, and we're going to see a lot more in the next two hundred and fifty million years, and certainly in the whole five billion more years we have left for the Sun exploits. But Pangaia is the one that is most known to us because we can imagine, we know what it looked like we are and we can imagine it. We can imagine

our current configuration fitting into it. Yeah, I mean it's uh. I've seen the analogy drawn. I think there's a House Stuff Works article by Molly Edmonds that that is a little bit of this. But imagine the continent of Pangia super continent is formed much like a supergroup or any kind of a really influential rock band. Right, first, one guy gets together with another guy or gal uh, they start playing drums together whatever. Then and somebody else joins

the band. Finally have the full band going on. It's really great, and then they can't get along. They break up. Maybe first one one band member leaves, in another leaves, and suddenly everybody's doing side projects or their own solo work.

But then eventually they're gonna get back together. You know, they're going to get back together if they're all still alive, or even if they're not, because the money is just too good, all right, So they're continually drifting apart and drifting back together, albeit at the slowest rate like this rock band. That's got to be immortal, right, because the rate at which this happens is um It's something like here here it is. To get some idea of how

slow it really has. Let your hair and fingernails grow uncut for an entire year. Your fingernail growth represents the slower pace of plate movement, while your hair growth is the same as the absolute greatest distance any plate has traveled in the last year. That's very insignificant. Yeah, I mean we're talking the average rate of motion on these these plates range from less than one to more than

fifteen centimeters per year. Now, just to give a quick basic run through on what's happening with plate tectonics, the Earth's outermost layer is fragmented into a dozen or more large and small solid slabs called lithospheric plates or tectonic plates, and they're moving relative to one another as they ride a top hotter, more mobile mantle material. And these a plate teconic cup processes have almost certainly been going on since the formation of the Earth four point six billion

years ago. Yeah, and nearly all the world's earthquake and volcanic activity will occur along or near boundaries between these plates. So not only are you getting the drifting, but you're also getting the collisions these plates colliding into one another. And when they do that, they either create mountain ranges or one plate will slip under the other and just get subsumed into the to the molten lava. And most

of these scenarios will cause volcanic activity. So this is where you see I wouldn't say it's see lost continents happening because it's happening at such a small or tiny rate. But here's this idea again that emerges that with all of these dynamic changes happening into these continents, maybe there

is something going on. Now. To put this in sort of the timeline of of the of all the thinking that we've been discussing in this pair of podcasts, it wasn't until nine that meteorologist Alfred Vegner hypothesized that our seven continents had once been joined together as a super continent. We've all this is just a straight up you know,

elementary school uh geography a puzzle. At this point, we've all seen what happens when you take the continents out of the puzzle board of the globe and placed them next to each other. You can say, oh, well, this corner fits here, this corner fits there. And indeed that's what of that Veganer was was noticing here that the borders of the continents matched up, they fit together almost

like a giant jigsaw puzzle. And then when you throw in other clues such as matching rocks and fossils that are found in countries separated by vast oceans, tropical plant fossils that were found in polar regions, and vice versa, it all, it all indicates that that that something's going on here, that these continents were, in fact, uh once linked together. But the idea of plate tectonics Lee didn't

come to the forefront ut of the nineteen sixties. So it's a relatively new um spin on what's happening with the continents, or a better understanding, I should say. So, if you turn back the clock, can you start looking for lost land masses or you know, land masses that that either no longer exist or no longer exists anywhere

near the forum. I mean, you can go back four billion years ago and you can find a plate building blocks known as craton's, which are essentially giant rock cores starting to rise up out of the primordial ocean um and according according to a History of super Continents on Planet Earth by Alistair Wilkins on I nine UH, there's some evidence that two cratons date back to as much as three point five billion years ago, forming the tiny continent of Valbara. But there's there's a lot of speculation

involved in this. So there's there's the more certain candidate for the oldest super continent would be a place called er, which I like because or sounds a lot like Moo. It's it's very it's very primordial, very primordial, and it sounds like it would definitely pop up in an early

twentieth century pulp novel. But this craton, though, is behind an idea of Mauritia, if I remember correctly, Yes, and for for this idea, we need to visit Mauritius, which is well known tourist destination, located about twelve hundred miles or two thousand kilometers off the coast of Africa east

of matted Gascar and in Uh. In two thousand thirteen, UM researchers found sand grains on the Mauritius beaches, and they looked at these and they found that they contained fragments of the mineral, the mineral zircon, and these were between six hundred and sixty and two billion years old, far older than the island itself. So yeah, they were like,

what how is that working? Yeah, so they stay theorized, well, okay, sand grains must be the remnants then of Mauritia, a law microcontinent that once existed off the coast of Africa, and it was eventually submerged when India broke apart from Madagas Gascar about eighty five million years ago. So the thing is is that they had discovered that this area,

this crust, is much thicker than elsewhere. And the idea is that instead of uh Mauritia being below in the ocean, that is actually sort of been consumed in that land mass itself. It is in the bottom reaches of of that area, if that makes any sense, and it is under the it is submerged under the Indian Indian Ocean. But it's not like floating there, you know, three thousand miles below right, Yeah, it's just kind of crunched down

if you will. And in fact, analysis of verse gravitational fields has revealed other areas in the world's ocean where the rock does appear to be thicker than normal and could in theory be a sign of of other continental crusts. So just basically like the land eating itself. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean we just go we come back again and get into this idea that that that the Earth is in, our shape of the Earth is is just in continual change.

It's just the change that takes place in geologic time and in deep time UM, and not the kind of thing that we can really truly comprehend from our very limited human perspective. Now, just to revisit Atlantis for a second. Uh. In Josh Clark's article about Atlantis, he talks about a city called Haliki, which may have been the blueprint for Atlantis,

or at least the allegory. And this is an area that UM would have existed for about two hundred years by the time plate I wrote about Atlantis, and it had been submerged underwater. And it's a coastal city located on the Gulf of Corinthine, Greece. Was once a seat of power there controlled shipping in the area. It was also a major site of worship of Poseidon, whom Plato deemed the patron saint of Atlantis. And in three seventy three b C, and major earthquake followed by tsunami washed

over the area and just completely wiped it out. So what's interesting about this is that archaeologists have gone back to this area and they said they've seen resettlement over and over again, and they've seen that this Helliki Delta was a really popular area to be in because these three rivers formed a delta of the broad and fresh water irrigated crops, and you had the coastal area, which is always nice. It's always beautiful to residing in a

coastal area. Um And as soon as they started to figure this out, they began to do some really heavy duty excavation and in n archaeologists found a buried ancient sea wall as well as ten Spartan ships that supposedly came to try to help out after the tsunami UH and then twelve ft beneath farmland they found ruins of industrial buildings, kilns looms, a bust of Poseidon, and some bronze age jugs. So looping this all back to this idea of lost countinance in our desire to rediscover these

areas of civilization. Hliki is a great example of that. And I think it's why it's so interesting to think that this other area Mauritia, existed and perhaps there was a civilization there. Um, and this idea that with all of this stuff is just getting recycled over and over again and is lost to us. Yeah, and and and certainly, uh, I think there's a lot of love of the Apocalypse

pound up in all of this too. I mean, who, it's great to hear about a wonderful civilization, but it's even better in a way if we hear about the civilization falling. You know, in the same way that we look to our celebrities. We wanted to see them do well, but we also really want them to fall. So we can read about that too, because that's the the stuff

of great of great fiction. And so yeah, I can well imagine that that Plato might would have known about the places that have been wiped out, islands that had where the civilization advantaged, or even the island itself had had been lost, and say, hey, that's a great idea. I'm going to use that. And when I'm writing, you're right, because he was probably like, I'm going to talk about this terrible moment in which the city was seized by something and this, and then there's this idea that this,

uh this might exist frozen in time somewhere. And there are other examples we can look to elsewhere in the world where where there's a there there's a land math that was once above the waters, but now it's below UH.

There's the Kurgouland Plateau, which is an underwater of volcanic large Uh province, also a micro continent UH and submerged continent in the Southern Indian Ocean lies about three three thousand kilometers to the southwest of Australia and is nearly three times the side of the Japan But to return to mid Earth, one of my favorite examples here is Zeilandia, which Zilandia and it sounds familiar if you're thinking of New Zealand, well then spot on because Zoolandia is a

nearly submerged continental fragment that sank after breaking away from Australia eighty five million years ago, having separated from Antarctica between eighty five and one hundred thirty million years ago, and it may have been completely submerged about twenty three million years ago, and most of it, nine of it

remains submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean today. Um So, all in all, we're talking about, you know, a land mass that's uh three million, five hundred thousand kilometers square kilometers inside, larger than Greenland or India, uh and almost half the size of Australia. But the only part of it that's really the main part really that's above uh the ocean that's actually visible, that actually has people and plants and and and is alive in that sense, is that New Zealand.

And New Zealand is only a hundred and three hundred three thousand, four hundred and eighty three square miles or two hundred sixty eight thousand, twenty one kilometers squared. That through a lot of numbers and stuff out there, but basically New Zealand is the tip of this iceberg and

the rest is is lost beneath the ocean. Yeah, we mentioned earlier that the band has to get back together again, right, the reunion show is inevitable even if all the remaining members are no you are no longer alive and in all likelihood based on our current understanding plate Ticonics. The theory is that the continents will merge again to form a new super continent within the next two hundred fifty million years, and this will complete the latest turn of

the supercontinent cycle. And then they'll break up again and do their solo projects. But then they'll get back together again for an even greater reunion in some incomprehensible distant future and who knows what that will look like. And robotics Share will be out there, Robotic Share will be there, um, and the great old ones will come back. Uh, there'll be an alien colony and uh. And also those four armed apes with the eye in the back of their head,

the Lamarans, we will be the dominant race center. Yeah. There's also the astral projections. Yes, yeah, yeah, there's some some of them probably escaped into the astral plane and will come back, because who doesn't want to be around for the super continent coming back again. They're just waiting it out on the solar winds, my friend. Uh. So there you have it, super Continents, Lost Continents, Lost Worlds, Atlantis,

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